Pursuing a career as a Chaplin does not limit you to only acting in military and hospital capacities. Sports Chaplains are needed to create a holistic and spiritually rich environment in the world of sports where athletes can receive counseling, spiritual guidance, and mentorship from religious leaders. Liberty University offers a 100% online Master in Sports Chaplaincy program to provide the training you need to meet the educational and personal needs of athletes. Our Master’s in Sports Chaplaincy degree is designed to prepare future sports chaplains for a biblically-based sports ministry in both religious and secular settings. Knowledge of effective methods and strategies will be gained to produce graduates who will serve as valuable and essential assets to their team.

The Master’sin Sports Chaplaincy degree is designed to prepare men and women for sports ministry rooted in Biblical principles. There is a great need for ministers in the field of sports, and it is up to individuals like you to fulfill this calling. Liberty University’s chaplaincy programs strive to produce leaders in their fields with a quality education from seasoned professors who have acquired years of first-hand experience in the content being taught. As a student in the Master’s in Sports Chaplaincy online degree, you will have the opportunity to complete a practicum that will incorporate the knowledge obtained through your chaplaincy training online into personal experiences. Liberty’s chaplain studies seek to challenge you in both the theoretical and practical side of sports chaplaincy to advocate achieving higher standards of excellence.

What Will You Learn in Our Sports Chaplain Program?

Graduates of the Master’s in Sports Chaplaincy will be equipped with the leadership and organizational skills needed to develop, build, and maintain a community ministry opportunity on a variety of levels. Our online courses offer sports chaplain training that will assist in developing a ministry leadership plan that is both biblically and theologically based as well as culturally informed within the sports context The employment of basic skills in ethical advisement, counseling, teaching, and leading as a sports chaplain in religious and secular settings will be applied. Students will analyze the strategy and practice of sports chaplaincy based on current research, knowledge of the literature of the discipline, and experience in the field.

Your sports chaplaincy studies will require you to complete a practicum for experience as a sports chaplain. We suggest this course be taken in the second semester of enrollment since it will be a prerequisite for most of the CHPL courses in the program. For this experience, you will essentially “shadow” a chaplain for the duration of the chaplaincy training online course. Completing a practicum allows the unique experience of marrying your sports chaplaincy training online courses with first-hand practical application to gain a deeper understanding of work in the chaplaincy field.

Sports Chaplaincy Program Highlights

By earning your online Master’s in Sports Chaplaincy degree from a nonprofit university whose online programs ranked in the top five of more than 2,100 online colleges and universities for academic quality, affordability, and accessibility, you will be set apart from others in your field.

Tuition for our Chaplaincy programs, including Sports Chaplaincy, has not increased in three straight years. While many other online colleges have raised tuition, Liberty has been able to keep costs low as a non-profit university.

You can complete our Sports Chaplaincy training online degree program in less than two years.

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Divinity in Chaplaincy – Liberty’s Master of Divinity in Chaplaincy is designed to provide you with an in-depth study of Scripture, biblical leadership principles and strategies, and the essential doctrines of the Christian faith. You will explore theological and cultural issues relevant to formal and informal chaplaincy settings while learning to minister to diverse audiences.

Military Benefits

Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students from all over the world. Whether you are a current service member, discharged or retired from service, or the spouse of a service member or veteran, we are here to support you every step of the journey. As a thank you for your dedication and service to our country, Liberty is honored to serve and support you in your pursuit of online education by offering the following benefits:

The discounted tuition rate of $275 per credit hour at part-time

Additional discount for veterans who serve in a civilian capacity as aFirst Responder(less than $625 per course).

Eight-week courses, eight different start dates each year, and no set login times.

Sports Chaplaincy Degree Potential Career Options

The Master’s in Sports Chaplaincy was created to provide you the opportunity to pursue your passion in one of these careers:

Sports Chaplain

Sports Ministry Leader

Sports Ministry Missionary

Church Sports Leader

Youth Pastor

Admission Requirements for the Online MA Sports Chaplaincy Degree

Applicants must have a regionally or nationally accredited Bachelor’s degree with a 2.0 GPA or above for admission in good standing. Please visit our Admission Requirements Page for more detailed admissions related information.

All applicants must submit the following:

Admission Application

Application fee*

Official college transcripts; if not available, submit a transcript request form.

School of Divinity Questionnaire

Contact Information for one Pastoral Recommender

Proof of English proficiency

*There is no upfront application fee; however, a deferred $50 application fee will be assessed during financial check-in. This fee is waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required.

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